Osman Kamara was just a child when he was severely burned in a house fire in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The local hospital wanted to amputate his legs.

The countries Mercy Ships serves have little or no available healthcare. Parents with children with severe health problems have little hope. 

Several Mercy Ships crew visited a children’s hospital in The Gambia.

Breakfast onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, is served at 6:30.

One of the joys of serving onboard our hospital ships is meeting our incredible patients and their families.

Every Friday morning, Miss Beth and her kindergarten class promenade throughout our hospital ship.  

Physical therapy is essential to the successful recovery of many of our surgical patients.  

Volunteers from over 60 countries come to our hospital ship with a common goal: to love and serve people who feel different, rejected, and alone.  

Mercy Ships goes to some of the poorest countries in the world to offer free medical care. And people often travel long, difficult miles to get to our hospital ships. 

Here at Mercy Ships, we put our faith into action through providing surgical medical care to people in some of the poorest countries in the world — and lives are changed forever.